Weeks 3 & 4 - Not what I would have hoped for.

(And Yes, I know this is actually week 5, trying to get caught up at the moment. Check back tomorrow for the Week 5 update)

But when your father is in town visiting from Arizona and you come down with a horrible cold, I will take just maintaining any day.

Not only was my Dad in town during this time period, which we went out to dinner on several occasions, Crave is fantastic, but we also had 3 get togethers/parties. The Superbowl, my niece Michaela's 3rd birthday party and a Olympic opening ceremony party. A lot of food was around during this two weeks and I did my best to eat as good as I could but at times I was not as successful as I would have liked.

Week 3
Current Weight - 184.0 lbs.
Weight lost this week - 0 lbs.
Total weight lost - 8.0 lbs.

Week 4
Current Weight - 184.5 lbs.
Weight lost this week - +.5 lbs.
Total weight lost - 7.5 lbs.

Throwing a monkey wrench in the works was the cold that Kris gave me and I held onto for several days. Not only did it make the diet hard, decided to eat more to make sure I was getting enough nutrition to get better, but it wrecked havoc with the race/event schedule.

2/6 Yukon Days - The original plan was to run the 1 mile and the 3 mile snowshoe race, but when we cold not locate running snowshoes for rent we fell back on plan B. Run the 1 mile race and the 3 mile race. What was a little bit of a surprise was that the races, all of them, were on the snow covered White Bear Lake. OK, something differant, we wanted to try trail running and we did something similar in December at the Winter Waddle.

So we lined up for the 1 mile and off we went. Once again I started out way to fast, I was in the lead from almost the beginning and held onto it until just before the turn around at half mile. OK, I let two get past me in the next quarter mile so if I could just hold on I could still take 3rd place and get a medal?? Nope, not today. In quick succession, I was passed by 3 more runners letting me finish in 6th place. My time was 7:51 but 3rd place was 7:41 so we were very close. Running through the snow on the ice was so hard, I know I am in not in shape at the moment but I have run two sub-6:00 minute miles if that gives you an idea how hard this race was. The winning time was 7:11. I would love to have know what my 1/2 mile split was.

After the one mile I was spent! I could not even catch my breath and had horrible coughing fits. (Foreshadowing of my cold?) We decided to skip the 3 mile on the same snow covered ice terrain. No thanks! First and last time for that event. At least we got a hooded sweatshirt, modeled in the picture below, which is a new swag that I have not seen before.

2/13 - We originally planned on running in the TC Valentine's Day 5K, but when online registration closed on the Tuesday before the race and the price went from $50 per couple to $35 per person we said NO THANK YOU!

2/14 - We hoped to attend the Charities Challenge - Challenge Hearts indoor track meet, but due to my stupid cold we decided to stay home and get some additional rest. So no early season 1 mile benchmark. :(

Hopefully now that life has gotten back to normal, all the big celebration events are over and my Dad has gone back to Arizona we can get back on track. I am hoping to show a little weight loss in this coming week.

Week 2 Update and Great Lakes MultiSport Expo and InStep 5K oh my!!

90 Day review...

OK, so this past week was a lot harder then the first week. I think will power got me through the first week but it was difficult finding that same amount of will power in week two. The hunger urges got the best of me on a couple of occasions.

Workout summery:

Wednesday 1/27 - ALARC Core Class - 90 minutes
Sunday 1/30 - Instep 5K - 27:20
Monday 2/1 - Running - 30 Minutes; Weight Training - Legs

We traveled to Milwaukee last weekend for the Great Lakes Multisport Expo (review below) which defiantly put a dent in the workout scheduled and made the diet a challenge. I can tell that my stomach has shrunk and it takes less for me to feel full.

Current Weight - 184.0 lbs.
Weight lost this week - 1.5 lbs.
Total weight lost - 8.0 lbs.

The one plus this past week was the fact that Kris lost 4 pounds which I had been telling her for the past two weeks that she was doing good and that she was losing weight and would show in week two. And I was right!!!

Multisport Expo:

This past weekend Kris and I traveled to Milwaukee for the 2010 Great Lakes Multisport Expo presented by RACC. This was a great opportunity for us to talk to several race directors and running groups about ZapEvent and what we can do for them, we made several promising contact that I am currently sending follow up emails too.

From a multisport participant point of view, it was really fun to see everything the Expo had to offer but by far the coolest thing had to be the team and individual bike time trials.

This would have been so fun to do especially the team time trial but I don't think we would haul our bikes to Milwaukee in the middle of winter time unless we had an enclosed option, plus we are missing a team to be part of. The one oddity about the expo was the complete lack of anyone that we knew and absolutely NO Gear West red anywhere. Hopefully we can generate enough interest in the Twin Cities multisport community so that we can better represent next year. Hey Kevin O'Connor, Steve Gunther and Kris Swarthout are you listening????

InStep 5K:

As part of the Expo on Sunday morning they had the InStep Winter Series 5K Championship at the Expo. Since we were going to be at the Expo already we decided to add another race to our schedule. Did I mention that the Expo was at the Wisconsin State Fair grounds? The 5K race was through out the fairgrounds and did a lap around the Miriacle Mile race track. The course was mostly flat and we were able to finish with a decent time of 27:20 giving Kris a good benchmark for the beginning of the season.

After the race we had a nice breakfast at the hotel, took our time getting ready and then geocached in Milwaukee until about 3pm when we had to head back to the cities. Details about our geocaching part of this trip can be read about on our other blog, A Life More Complete.

This coming weekend we are signed up for the Yukon Days 1 mile and 3 mile snowshoe on Saturday morning and the Luminary Loppit on Saturday evening.